That all being said

 But in reality this DNA work has involved me 24/7 ever since we did our first tests at Sorenson way back in 2005 I think it was. The path to FT DNA was so easy to follow from Sorenson and here I am having tested at all the great companies up into the mid 2010s and there are some new ones but I have tested there yet. What did I gain? An interesting project first of all and very family oriented. Secondly I am achieving thoughts I haven't had since childhood when my grandfather wanted a book written about his Blake family. My mother did chat about her own family which included the lines that she knew from childhood when her father was still living and they lived closeby them - the Routledges, the Grays, the Pincombes (and there were others but they are not as mentioned by her perhaps but a few more). It was fun for her going to school with her cousins. Sad that her father died when she was only eight years of age. That always sunk into my brain because I would lose my grandfather when I was eight years old and his loss was huge. At that point in my life I thought I shared something with my mother as the pain of loss seeped through me. But I was not a great talker and I was one of seven after all; there are only so many hours in a day and I would say that I talked more to my mother after I was an adult than before. My desire to be alone far outweighed my seeking out time with her for sure. So there is also this sort of union of thoughts that we shared that last day together when she talked about the Family DNA and my own interest in childhood of DNA which was true actually. 

Yesterday I completed the matches for Chromosome 2 in spite of no internet (gone for about a few hours). What I didn't have was access to the actual record if I decided I wanted to check it out. As it turned the last twenty records did not really have any queries on my part and fitted well into the schedule that I was producing. All of the crossover points are proven adequately and ready to proceed to Chromosome 1. I have set up Chromosome 1 now and there are just 18 points compared to 24 with the 2nd but it is still a very long chromosome - indeed the longest of all of them. But it has one individual with one chromosome unbroken (me, it is Blake) and I  have only two crossovers. There are 281 matches though and it will take a while to work my way through all of them for sure. The DNA Painter charts are very interesting and at the time I first decided to do the phasing of the grandparents I actually started with Chromosome 1 and was rewarded with a fairly straight chromosome given the length and the number of matches at that time. 

Another busy day and have a few things I want to get done besides the matches. So must begin. Tea soon and then solitaire puzzles.